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| The most popular part of the talk was the the question and answer period at the end. |
Thursday evening Dr Nancy Everhart did a presentation at the US Embassy in Beijing about Fake News. It was a full house as the crowd questioned Everhart about censorship and propaganda.
Everhart is a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Since August - she has been a Fulbright Scholar teaching at Beijing Normal University. She teaches graduate classes in library science. The fellowship extends 6 months from August thru January. She is accompanied by her husband - Harry.
While in China - she has made presentations at Nanjing University and Vietnam National University in Saigon. This week she will present at Tsunrumi University in Yokohama - Japan. She has a talk scheduled at Beijing Institute of Technology.
During the presentation - the crowd hung on every word. When someone asked how do we learn more about Hong Kong - she whispered - VPN. The place roared.
It may be a co-incident but our Internet stopped working for 3 days. It is now back up and operating - so I quickly posted this story.
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| The presentation was open to the general public - but you had to register before hand |
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| We attended a week of orientation at this Embassy |
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| Fake News - An expanded role for librarians |
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| The press interviewed her before the talk |
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| Note the Norman Rockwell photos |
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